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In the Cabinet of Wonders

2025FAR-004Early Music, Organ, Violin

Chicago-based violinist Martin Davids (Callipygian Players, Bella Voce Sinfonia, Haymarket Opera, Music of the Baroque) is joined by organist, musicologist, and author David Yearsley for a program paying tribute to an unlikely, yet celebrated duo. In 17th century Hamburg, organist Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663) and violinist Johann Schop (1590-1667) became one of the town’s leading cultural attractions playing from the organ gallery of the cavernous St. Catherine’s church to the delight of locals and tourists. The four manual organ of St. Catherine’s was equipped with a vibrant palette of registers imitating other instruments of the age: cornetti, viols, recorders. Scheidemann was renowned for his ability to express his lively humor while Schop’s violin playing was extolled for its unexpected creativity and sparkling flourishes. Recorded in the Anabel Taylor Chapel of Cornell University, Davids and Yearsley present music by Schop and Scheidemann as well as their own improvisation on a chorale tune by Schop. All works are new to the WFMT library.

Tracklist

Johann Schop: Intrada à 5 from Erster Theil newer Paduanen
Johann Schop (after Alessandro Striggio): Nasce la pena miafrom ‘T Uitnemend Kabinet
Johann Schop (after John Dowland): Lachrime Pavaen from ‘T Uitnemend Kabinet
Heinrich Scheidemann: Galliarda ex D
Intonatio (improvisation by Davids and Yearsley)
Heinrich Scheidemann: Christ lag in Todesbanden, 2 verses
Johann Schop: sine titulo from ‘T Uitnemend Kabinet
Heinrich Scheidemann (after Giovanni Bassano): Dic nobis Maria
Heinrich Scheidemann: Canzon in G
Heinrich Scheidemann: Englische Mascarada
Johann Schop: Almande Mortiel from ‘T Uitnemend Kabinet

Johann Schop: Præludium from ‘T Uitnemend Kabinet
Fantasia sopra Werde munter, mein Gemüte (improvisation by Davids and Yearsley on a chorale by Johann Schop)
Johann Schop: Pavaen de Spanj from ‘T Uitnemend Kabinet

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